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A Richardson High School student’s takedown of Justin Lookadoo

The Lookadoo discussion rolls on and on. (If you’re just coming to the conversation, Justin Lookadoo is a motivational speaker who presented at Richardson High School on Wednesday. His gender-specific advice was not universally well received. Nor was material that students and parents found about him online about his faith-specific foundation for his opinions. Click here to get caught up.)

The DMN’s Jacquielynn Floyd has a column on the topic today. And it’s a good one. But I’d like to direct you also to a blog post. Author identifies herself as Aisleen Menezes, a junior at RHS. She does a passionate, civil and detailed analysis of Lookadoo’s actual presentation that is hard to beat. She recorded the entire presentation and her quotes are taken from her recording, she writes. Here’s a nugget:

The most angering and raging factor is the overuse of stereotypes and generalizations in his presentation, to try and prove his “points” and keep his audience “engaged.” He attempted to use a stereotypical Black woman’s voice to mock the female Black American demographic (this voice was used only when something was glaringly evident) and used hasty generalizations about teenagers and teenage relationships, such as “teenage girls physically give into relationships because they want to save them” or because “they’re lowering their standards” and “as soon as a relationship becomes physical, all of “his friends know.” Scaring girls away as a method of encouraging abstinence? Fantastic. How about proper sex education instead? But of course, “If you’ll do it with that idiot, you’ll do it with him.”

Now, on to more about relationships, or so we hope: “Ladies, I’m going to say this in the nicest way possible….you are the most horrible, awful, vindictive creatures this planet has ever seen.”

Combining sexism and humor? Wonderful.

And here’s the link. Agree with her or not, you gotta give her full props for doing her homework and presenting her thoughts with a minimum of vitrol and a maximum of specifics.

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